It’s the Apocalypse, but My Summons Do Everything - Chapter 22

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Episode 22

#Episode 22

Jinu, who had killed the giant with a single strike, approached my side silently.

Black shadows were endlessly rippling from Jinu’s body.

When I examined Jinu with my Soul Insight, I could see his newly acquired power glimmering.

‘What kind of monster-tier skill is this now…’

To think he could control the darkness itself.

He was such a talent that I was drooling with envy, but that wasn’t what was important right now.

“Hyung, what should we do now?”

Jinu, having completed his awakening, was showing confidence completely different from before.

It was because he was truly experiencing what kind of power he possessed.

“Jinu, there’s something controlling those goblins.”

“Controlling them?”

“Yeah, even though goblins are cunning, they don’t have that level of intelligence.”

“Ah…”

Jinu, roughly understanding what I meant, glared at the goblins who were reorganizing their formation.

Even though such a massive variable had occurred, they seemed intent on seeing this through to the end, reorganizing their formation and preparing their stance.

“Yeo-ul and I will handle those guys, can you find and kill the one controlling them?”

“…”

Jinu’s black eyes turned toward the goblins.

In his pitch-black pupils that seemed to contain death, countless goblins were drowning.

“…Yes, I think it’s possible.”

To say it’s possible without even thinking about it.

Is this what makes a natural S-rank different?

His calm demeanor made his earlier trembling with a steel pipe seem like a lie.

The perspective of an ordinary person and that of an S-rank Hunter had such an enormous difference.

“Good, then we’ll go in first and tear them apart, and you go after that.”

“Got it, hyung.”

“…”

There was no trembling in his eyes or breathing.

Rather, what he was concerned about were his siblings hiding and holding their breath inside the building.

Fear didn’t exist at all, as if he had been a well-trained assassin from the start.

‘…The kid’s pretty cool.’

I swallowed my words and stood next to Kim Yeo-ul.

“Even if we can’t massacre them all, we can hold out, right?”

“What are you saying, worry about yourself.”

“Did you forget who handled all those waves last time?”

“Just because you did well once… Let’s go!”

“You’re really impatient too.”

Kim Yeo-ul’s rough fist, charging forward while tearing through the air that covered her face, instantly shattered the goblins’ front line.

It was as if armor had been stripped away in an instant, exposing bare flesh, so not to be outdone, I also sprinted and began eliminating the goblins.

As my Soul Collection gradually increased, three or four goblins began falling with each punch.

Piiiiek-!

With an ear-piercing whistle sound, the goblins’ movements became even more agile.

At the same time, all the generals except for the royal guard protecting the Goblin King rushed toward Kim Yeo-ul and me.

Chweik! Chweiiiek!

Unlike the other short goblins, the generals with 2-meter heights roared.

Two had twin hand axes, one had a massive club, and the rest carried great swords as big as my body.

Four monsters whose strength far exceeded that of humans attacked simultaneously.

The generals charged roughly, thinking we would hesitate, but we had no intention of stopping at all.

Hot steam rose from Kim Yeo-ul’s mouth as she downed a mana potion.

The King of Fists’ stance and Yeonje’s flames began burning even more fiercely.

Since it was the same for me, I raised my power even higher not to be outdone.

Chweiiiek-!

A massive axe aimed for my shoulder.

After lightly twisting my body to dodge, I struck the side of the axe embedded in the ground.

That alone caused the general’s body to lean greatly.

I immediately jumped up from the ground and drove my knee into the general’s nose.

Chweeeek!

The general’s nose magnificently spurted blood and his upper teeth were also shattered.

His brain seemed shaken as he clutched his head, unable to regain his senses.

Just as I was about to ride this momentum to destroy his Achilles tendon.

Chweik!

A great sword flew in as if to say “not so fast” and blocked my path.

I immediately changed targets to the great sword that had stopped right in front of me.

I stepped on the great sword embedded in the ground and jumped up to strike down his head, but he had already learned from seeing his comrade get hit once.

He tried to protect his head with his left arm that wasn’t holding the sword, but.

‘This shabby armor is nothing!’

I put all my weight into it and smashed the arm guard to pieces.

The iron arm guard shattered and exposed bare flesh, but I couldn’t inflict any real damage.

“Tch…!”

If it had been Kim Yeo-ul, she would have already smashed it and cracked their skulls too.

When I glanced at Kim Yeo-ul, she had already destroyed the weapons of two Goblin Generals and was overwhelming them in close combat.

It was natural that I was falling behind compared to a physical-type Hunter, but it didn’t feel good to be losing like this.

“You talk big but you’re nothing special.”

“I’m a magic-type Hunter to begin with!”

Now the Generals started attacking me together completely.

A greatsword from the left and a two-handed axe from the right flew at my head simultaneously.

I ducked my upper body to make the two weapons collide, and I could see the Generals’ postures crumble momentarily from each other’s force.

I immediately lowered my stance and charged forward, striking the goblin’s scrotum with all my might.

Crack-!

The price for crossing a line that should never be crossed as a man was quite effective.

Squee-squee-squeee-eek…!

The axe-wielding one’s face turned blue as he collapsed to his knees.

He covered the struck area with both hands and writhed with foam at his mouth, then died just like that.

Squee… squeeeek!?

The other Goblin General made eye contact with me and covered his scrotum with trembling hands in fear.

I smiled wickedly and charged at the General.

Squeek! Squeek squeeek!

The terrified General tried to use other goblins to block my path, but it was impossible against me who had finished concentrating sufficiently.

With a single punch I knocked away all the goblins blocking my way and charged forward, stepping on corpses.

Just as my charging fist was about to collide with his greatsword.

Since I wasn’t confident enough to use my fist against a blade yet, I relaxed my strength and deflected my punch.

The greatsword that missed its target was driven powerlessly into the ground, and the punishment for a warrior who lost his weapon was harsh.

As I tried to step on the greatsword and leap up like before, I saw him cover his head with his remaining wrist guard.

But I lowered my stance and dove in, striking his vital spot once again.

Squee…eek…

The death cry was short.

Since the attack didn’t seem to go very deep this time, I picked up the greatsword he had dropped and drove it into the back of his head.

Thunk!

Two large Goblin Generals had died.

Surely Kim Yeo-ul with her overwhelming combat power had finished her battle faster, but the goblins were feeling more fear toward me.

As evidence, wherever I advanced, goblins were slowly backing away.

Kim Yeo-ul, who had thoroughly cleared her surroundings, approached my side.

She tilted her head looking at the terrified goblins.

“What did you do to make them act like that?”

“…I guess I broke a taboo that men shouldn’t cross.”

“What? There’s such a thing?”

“Yeah…”

I pretended not to see the fallen Generals and briefly observed the current situation.

The goblins who had lost four Generals simultaneously seemed to realize we weren’t opponents they could handle, and were just trembling while holding their weapons, unable to attack first.

They were probably waiting for the next order to come down.

A brief standoff continued.

In the situation where sticky tension was maintained, only the Goblin King was screaming in rage.

He was wildly swinging his skull staff, seemingly quite angry as his green face was turning bright red.

However, despite the Goblin King’s fury, the goblins couldn’t charge forward and were just watching each other’s reactions, with no one approaching first.

Just from seeing that, I could tell the Goblin King was just a figurehead and the real power holder was somewhere else.

The problem was that I had no idea where that real power holder was.

‘Jinu is later than I thought…’

The aura felt on the battlefield itself wasn’t particularly powerful.

It meant someone was hiding somewhere and watching the battle situation.

‘This has become somewhat troublesome.’

It didn’t matter anyway.

Time was on our side.

The goblins were demoralized and command wasn’t being properly transmitted.

‘The longer we wait, the greater our advantage becomes anyway.’

Rather, if we waited like this until sunrise, we would secure visibility too, making the battle even more favorable for us.

Kim Yeo-ul seemed to know this as well, as she only burned with fighting spirit to prevent the goblins from daring to approach, but didn’t leap in first.

As meaningless time slowly passed like that for a while.

The Goblin King’s patience seemed to reach its limit as he screamed, and he rose from his throne.

“What is it trying to do?”

The goblin that rose up while snorting heavily gripped its bone staff in reverse and pierced straight through its own heart.

“Huh!?”

“What!? Why is it hurting itself!?”

I thought it might have had a fit of rage, but what happened afterward was definitely not something that could be explained by a mere tantrum.

The goblins filling the battlefield all knelt down in unison.

Whether they were frontline fighters or archers, countless goblins performed this synchronized movement as if they had made a pact.

And shortly after, dark red energy poured out from all the goblins on the battlefield and was absorbed into the Goblin King’s bone staff.

The pure white bone staff was instantly stained with blood.

Then, I felt a sinister malice that couldn’t even be compared to the giant made from goblins before.

Kim Yeo-ul, who was watching beside me, frowned so deeply that it showed just how terrible it was.

“Tsk…”

“What should we do?”

“Don’t move carelessly for now. We don’t know what might happen if we interfere recklessly.”

The staff that had absorbed all the dark red energy like a vacuum cleaner finally began to devour even the Goblin King’s body.

Squeak, squeeeek!? Squeak!?

The Goblin King, greatly panicked as if it hadn’t expected this to happen, thrashed about trying to escape somehow, but it was just meaningless struggling.

Black hands that burst forth from the bone staff devoured the Goblin King without a shred of mercy.

Crunch! Crack! Creak!

“Ugh…”

“How grotesque.”

The staff floated in mid-air despite having lost its place to be planted.

Perhaps intoxicated by the fishy scent of blood flowing around, it trembled for a moment.

The dark red energy it had swallowed began writhing and taking on a new form.

A horned head and body, human-like limbs, and even red wings.

“What is… that thing?”

“A demon…?”

As if hearing my words, the something that appeared explosively unleashed dark red energy.

[Don’t compare me to such a failure.]

Something with black skin, blood-red hair, and crimson eyes appeared before me.

[I had no intention of revealing myself to the world yet… but the situation has become complicated.]

With a single gesture from it, the countless goblin corpses scattered across the battlefield began gathering and compressing together.

The compressed mass of flesh made bizarre sounds and eventually transformed into the shape of a small pill.

It swallowed the pill without any hesitation.

Then, its already powerful aura became even more intense.

[Still not enough…]

Kim Yeo-ul and I were reflected in its eyes that were redder than blood.

It was an overwhelmingly terrifying moment that froze my body instantly.

But the System Message that appeared immediately afterward easily dispelled this fear.

The same was true for Kim Yeo-ul, who was my summon.

[Ho… to dispel my external pressure so easily, you’re no ordinary human.]

“How dare a mere monster act up…!”

[Silence, wench.]

Kim Yeo-ul’s two arms, wrapped with the King of Fists and Yeonje, were severed in an instant.

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